Peter Shoults <Peter.Shoults at Sun.COM> writes: > On 09/25/09 13:17, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 01:17:00PM -0400, Tom Yu wrote: > > > I was puzzled at why sigaction() was not being used to set up the > SIGPIPE handler, and it looks like the MIT code is using sigaction(), > but OpenSolaris is not, for some reason. > > > > My guess: MIT fixed this eons ago and we didn't. The fork of this > particular bit of code may go back to the late 90s. > > Nico > > > > That did not get picked up on the re-syncs? > > OK - fine - I will open a new CR about the signal() to sigaction(). If I > change to sigaction() are we all good with the fix as proposed?
Correctly using sigaction() for establishing the handlers will obviate the need to call signal() from inside the handlers.
